Celebrating a centenary of gardening magnificence, the world-renowned RHS Chelsea Flower Show opens today in London.
Each year, this annual spectacle attracts thousands of visitors to the grounds of London’s Royal Hospital in Chelsea. Flower enthusiasts and green-fingered gardeners from around the world gather to see the latest in horticultural design, as well as new plant varieties, botanical color trends and
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Digital Shoreditch - the annual festival celebrating the creative, technical and entrepreneurial spirit of East London’s Tech City launches today in Shoreditch.
The most talented digital and technical creatives are coming together to enjoy over 500 sessions, 20+ interactive rooms, networking parties and dinners during the eleven day festival.
Themed days include What Tech City?, Behavioural Design and Tomorrow’s World, while The
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The third edition of annual design conference, What Design Can Do!, celebrates the impact, power and relevancy of design.
An annual event based in Amsterdam, this "activist" conference explores the power of design to address urgent issues of today’s world. Located across the capital over two thought-provoking days, the event schedule is full of international speakers, workshops and 12 break-out sessions
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Luxury automotive manufacturer, Bentley is unveiling a new line of contemporary furniture in collaboration with Club House Italia.
Combining Bentley Motor’s iconic penchant for traditional craftsmanship and luxury finishes with Club House Italia’s slick design aesthetic, the collection will comprise furniture and homeware pieces designed to adorn the interiors and offices of “discerning customers” and fans of each brand.
Bentley’s interior aesthetic
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Shanghai's culinary crowd welcomes the multi-sensory restaurant, Ultraviolet.
Shanghai-based, internationally renowned chef, Paul Pairet has opened his second restaurant in the Paris-equivalent of the East. The avant-garde chef unites cutting-edge technology and quality cuisine as a total of 56 speakers, high-resolution projectors, dry smell projectors and a wind turbine create a truly immersive experience.
In a restaurant that seats only 10, the
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British publishing house, Phaidon has just unveiled a gastronomic app to accompany the highly successful book, Where Chefs Eat.
The Where Chefs Eat app lists over 400 of the worlds top chefs' recommendations of their favorite places to eat, from eccentric chef Heston Blumenthal to David Chang, founder of momofuko. With culinary hotspots from around the world, the 2,000+ recommendations include
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The Design Museum in London has collaborated with Swiss design company Vitra to produce a pop-up garden that celebrates the start of summer.
The Design Museum Tank, the glass display area outside the Design Museum, is now home to a pop-up garden on the River Thames riverfront.
Pieces by the design world’s biggest names, including Edward Barber, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Charles
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New York’s newest design show, Collective Design Fair explores the blurring line between art and design.
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Founded and created by Steven Learner, the fair comprises 24 international galleries that represent the best of what contemporary and vintage design has to offer. Our New York editor, Rita Nakouzi, selects her top picks from the inaugural edition.
When you first walk into the
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This weekend, urban agriculture initiative FARM:shop in Dalston, London hosted a Sunday lunch with a futuristic twist.
Entitled “The 2063 Project,” the event aimed to consider the future sustainability of today’s diet, and uncover what we might be eating fifty years from now - particularly focusing on the luxury sector.
An eclectic menu came courtesy of the Rebel Dining Society’s Shay Ola,
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Self-proclaimed jellymongers, Bompas and Parr are creating a Tutti Frutti Boating Lake at Kew Gardens in London this month, as part of the IncrEdibles: A Voyage Through Surprising Edible Plants festival.
The duo's eccentric work frequently explores the taste of food on an architectural scale, and they were named as “one of the 15 people who will define the future of
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Tomorrow, European design platform Glass Is Tomorrow will arrive in Brussels.
This traveling exhibition and ongoing project aims to establish and promote, “a more fluid exchange of knowledge and competencies between glass and design professionals.”
Following stop-offs at the Biennale Internationale Design in Saint-Étienne, and MOST Salone in Milan in April, Glass Is Tomorrow will reside in the beautiful Ampersand House until
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Foodsharing is a new eco-friendly platform dedicated to reducing the wastage of food.
Currently based in Germany, this online community aims to address the huge amount of global food wastage. More than 1.3 billion tonnes of food is discarded annually, however foodsharing.de has already saved more than 4500 kilos of food from the rubbish heap.
Aiming to put people with excess food
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On Friday evening, visitors to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London were treated to a preview of the International Space Orchestra’s performance film Ground Control: An Opera in Space.
Led by design provocateur Nelly Ben Hayoun, the International Space Orchestra is the world’s first orchestra composed of space scientists, which invites participants to “implement, deconstruct, perform, sing, mix, modify and
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Today the critically acclaimed Museum of Everything’s latest show, Exhibition #5, opens in Moscow.
Showcasing the results of last summer’s extensive search across Russia for untrained artists, this is Russia’s first and largest survey of contemporary, non-traditional and self-taught art.
The museum curators traveled from Yekaterinburg to Moscow, checking out the art scenes and hosting local shows in Kazan, Nizhny Novgrood and
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Famous for vintage-inspired prints and cutesy homewares, Cath Kidston unveiled a concept house and café as part of the brand's F/W 13 collection preview.
Moving-on from the more traditional floral prints associated with the brand, over 30 new designs were presented, comprising “more hints of prints” than “kitsch print overload”.
To best showcase this younger, fresher aesthetic, a concept house was installed
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